Taking advantage of the fact that we have far exceeded 500 subscribers on YouTube and also a number of more than 100 video tutorials about different design applications (especially Adobe Photoshop), I would like to share with you a compilation with 100 videos made from Creativos Online where very interesting exercises have been proposed to develop and enhance our learning.
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Jill Greenberg is a Canadian artist internationally recognized for her work in the fine arts. He has worked in advertising campaigns for companies such as Dreamworks, Microsoft, MTV or Coca-Cola. It is a recognized artist, one of the most influential photographers in recent times. Today, we will dedicate this video tip to the Jill Greenberg Technique.
It is a lighting effect, not digital editing, although if we do not have the appropriate lights or tools, Photoshop can help us perfectly.
The verisimilitude of our photomontages depends directly on the integration of the elements that make up our composition. Especially in the construction of realistic cut images, this idea is essential. For this, Photoshop provides us with several tools such as layer blending modes, layer masks, contrast-lighting curves, and variations parameters. Learning to master all these types of adjustments will help us create visually coherent images.
To work this technique, I bring you this simple Photoshop CC video tutorial.
Hair trimming has always been problems when integrating our characters into our compositions. Especially when we work with a feminine image with abundant hair, this can become a challenge. The possibilities are various and many of them quite laborious, but with this video advice we will be able to face this task in a simple, easy way and with a totally professional appearance.
Texturing in our compositions can become a tremendously easy task if we know how to master the brush tool and Adobe Photoshop filters. In this little video I will teach you how to create compositions with watercolor effect from photographs. It is preferable that before we start working on compositions of this style, we take a look at other works, paintings or even compositions in the Pop-Art style.
http://youtu.be/rBzOOM1Dr84
If we are working on Gothic style characters or compositions, it is very possible that we will have to resort to fantasy effects in the characterization process. Therefore, in this video I bring you three special effects and fantastic style to work with them. They are very simple and can really give us very good results. We will act in the most expressive area of the face: The eyes.
http://youtu.be/xydZb6vA84o
In the next video we will see how to create in a very simple way the integrated watercolor effect in a photograph with a rather interesting touch. I also bring you the pack of brushes that I used to work on this composition. You can download it for free at the next link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7auI2v6-vbtR2VEMy1TWGdWUTg/edit?usp=sharing).
http://youtu.be/SORJHE-JGVs
One of the most important parts of a photograph is the lighting and when in a montage we are altering this element we must be very cautious since this can be the indicator of whether our image is realistic or not. Next we will see how to create realistic shadows of our characters in a simple and realistic way with Adobe Photoshop.
http://youtu.be/5hLyIzSLO3w
A very good solution to give more drama and expressiveness to our portraits is the Dragan effect. It is characterized by giving images a very low degree of saturation and marking expression lines, wrinkles and playing with sharpness.
http://youtu.be/gC0Lvj6qYZs
This is a very simple technique to include in our projects light effects in the form of solar rays. There are different plugins, extensions and methods that will help us to obtain this effect (possibly we will see it in future videos) but I would like to start with this technique, since I know that many of you are starting and taking your first steps with the application.
http://youtu.be/TMWtQYN1lUY
This is a very simple method to apply digital makeup to our characters through the Adobe Photoshop application. The procedure is developed through basic tools and options so you will have no problem applying it if you are a beginner user.